Pre-Constitution Review
This clash between colonists and British officers led to the deaths of five Americans, and largely fueled rebellion and the drive for independence.
This set up ensures that no one branch of the federal government becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
What is his leading the revolution?
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson fought against each other in a debate to establish this aspect of the United States.
What is the National Bank?
The first ten amendments of the Constitution, created as a compromise to ratify the Constitution between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, guarantees certain rights to American citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This document was used at first to govern the USA, but failed due to its lack of central government and inability to tax its citizens or settle national disputes.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
These two houses of Congress make up the legislative branch of the United States government.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This uprising was the first major challenge of Washington's presidency, and involved an armed resistance to those who did not want to pay federal taxes.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The Federalist Papers, written in favor of the Constitution, had three authors, but this man wrote the highest number of them.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The first amendment, considered by some the most important, allows American citizens to criticize the government without imprisonment and to assemble in peaceful protest.
What is freedom of speech?
Known as the breadbasket of America, this colonial region produced more grain and wheat than any other through the 1600s and 1700s.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This power, held by the President, allows for a refusal to pass a bill into a law even if it wins a majority in Congress.
What is veto?
This was a group of professional advisors who helped the President oversee different parts of the country, including the Secretaries of War, the Treasury, and State.
What is the cabinet?
This early position, led by Thomas Jefferson, would eventually become the Democratic-Republican party.
What are the Anti-Federalists?
These aspects of the Constitution represent changes to the initial document that provide new rights or laws to American citizens.
What are amendments?
This philosopher's ideas of basic human rights and the consent of the governed largely influenced the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Who is John Locke?
The Supreme Court, as the judicial branch of the government, is made up of this number of judges.
What is nine?
Washington famously refused to assist this country during their own revolution once he assumed the presidency.
What is France?
What is a loose interpretation of the Constitution?
This amendment does not allow for the police or authorities to search your property, possessions, or person without a warrant.
What is the fourth amendment?
The first document outlining the idea of self-governance in England was this, signed in 1215.
This is the name of the three branches of government.
What is the legislative, executive, and judicial?
In his farewell address, Washington warned against the development of this aspect of voting and politics in our country, which is widely practiced today.
What are political parties?
John Adams, of the Federalist party, created these laws that were wildly unpopular and lost the Federalist party their influence in government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This amendment, used by Anti-Federalists to argue against too much power in the Federal government, insists that those abilities that don't belong to the government belong to this.
What are the states and the people?